GNU bug report logs - #45627
Disabling static libraries by default?

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Disabling static libraries by default?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:13:04 +0100

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Guix,

One-liners like this[0] one are about as fun to commit as they are 
to see spam up your -commits@ mailbox, and make me wonder why we 
don't pass ‘--disable-static’ (&c. for other build systems) by 
default in the absence of a :static output.  Has this been 
discussed and rejected?

Guix plays so poorly with static linkage that I'm surprised we 
keep these things lying around at all, like rakes to step on one 
fun day.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=c2c954afb2df5b9926f52b5c14d0213827e3401f

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, 45627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45627: Disabling static libraries by default?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:00:46 +0100

Hi!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
skribis:

> One-liners like this[0] one are about as fun to commit as they are to
> see spam up your -commits@ mailbox, and make me wonder why we don't
> pass ‘--disable-static’ (&c. for other build systems) by default in
> the absence of a :static output.  Has this been discussed and
> rejected?

I don’t think it’s been discussed but I think it’s a good idea!

Hand-written ‘configure’ script will fail when passed
‘--disable-static’, but hopefully those already have a custom phase
because of the other flags we pass by default.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #14 received at 45627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: me <at> tobias.gr, 45627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45627: Disabling static libraries by default?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:17:59 -0500

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
> skribis:
>
>> One-liners like this[0] one are about as fun to commit as they are to
>> see spam up your -commits@ mailbox, and make me wonder why we don't
>> pass ‘--disable-static’ (&c. for other build systems) by default in
>> the absence of a :static output.  Has this been discussed and
>> rejected?

Seconded, and +1 for humor.

Maxim

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